diff --git a/ts/test-electron/linkPreviews/linkPreviewFetch_test.ts b/ts/test-electron/linkPreviews/linkPreviewFetch_test.ts
index 060d9897fd..580f4d6a1c 100644
--- a/ts/test-electron/linkPreviews/linkPreviewFetch_test.ts
+++ b/ts/test-electron/linkPreviews/linkPreviewFetch_test.ts
@@ -844,8 +844,6 @@ describe('link preview fetching', () => {
});
it('stops reading bodies after 500 kilobytes', async function test() {
- this.timeout(10000);
-
const shouldNeverBeCalled = sinon.stub();
const fakeFetch = stub().resolves(
@@ -854,10 +852,9 @@ describe('link preview fetching', () => {
yield new TextEncoder().encode(
'foo bar'
);
- const spaces = new Uint8Array(1024).fill(32);
- for (let i = 0; i < 500; i += 1) {
- yield spaces;
- }
+ const spaces = new Uint8Array(250 * 1024).fill(32);
+ yield spaces;
+ yield spaces;
shouldNeverBeCalled();
yield new TextEncoder().encode(
''